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5 min readThe narrator, a night-shift shelf stocker who lives for adrenaline rushes like bungee jumping from hundred-foot bridges, never believed in ghost stories. Shadow people were just fun, creepy reads to pass the time. That changed when a group of thrill-seeking friends decided to explore an abandoned asylum built in the early 1800s and closed since the 1920s. The building was a gothic hulk set against the mountains, its windows like eyes, its doors standing open as if inviting them in. The narrator went along mostly out of boredom, but what happened inside turned a skeptic into someone who now knows that shadow people are more than just stories.
The shadow that moves like a living thing
The group—the narrator, Johnny, Susan, Tim, and the reckless "Speed Bump" Steve—entered the decaying asylum. The first floor sagged under creeping vines, and the narrator kept catching glimpses of stealthy movements in the shadows that vanished when looked at directly. On the second floor, the structure was in better condition, but holes in the floor revealed the dim, orange-lit floor below where moving shadows seemed to have a life of their own. Speed Bump, true to form, ran and leaped over one of the holes just for the thrill. The narrator thought they saw two shadows trace his movement—a trick of the light, they told themselves.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:34) **Narrator Introduces the Shadow Person Legend** - The narrator, a skeptic and overnight shelf stocker with an adrenaline-junkie friend group, admits that shadow people are more than just creepy stories.
- 2 (04:48) **The Crew and the Asylum's History** - The narrator introduces the five-person group and the dark history of the abandoned asylum they plan to explore.
- 3 (08:07) **Entering the Asylum and First Signs of the Supernatural** - The group enters through the main doors, which seem to invite them in, and the narrator begins to sense they are not alone.
- 4 (13:09) **On the Second Floor: A Brush with Death** - The group explores the more structurally sound second floor, where the narrator has a close call and witnesses a disturbing movement.
- 5 (14:52) **The First Direct Sighting: Red Eyes and an Extra Shadow** - On the third floor, the narrator sees a physical, three-dimensional person step into a room, and then discovers a fifth shadow on the wall.
- 6 (17:11) **The Shadow's Rules and Speed Bump's Recklessness** - The group learns the shadow's rules: it avoids light and touching it makes people disappear; Speed Bump treats it as an adventure.
- 7 (18:28) **The Chase and Johnny's Disappearance** - The shadow pursues them through the asylum, and Johnny stumbles into it, vanishing completely.
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Show Notes
I used to look through abandoned buildings, NOT ANYMORE..
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